[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#134][comment] DNS URI support

[pspacek]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/134
Title: #134: DNS URI support

pspacek commented:
"""
I was playing with an idea of automatic escaping but it cannot be done with current record format: There is no way to distinguish alredy escaped text from a text which needs escaping. This totally breaks web UI edit workflow because it reads text from LDAP, fills text field with it and then double-escapes it during save.

For this reason I've given up attempts to automatically escape things, which is no different from e.g. TXT records. Call it consistency if you want ;-)
"""

See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/134#issuecomment-251949022